Women may soon be able to produce sperm

[Guest Arnold_OldSchool]

Women could make sperm

 

[Posted: Tue 11/07/2006]

 

A new scientific breakthrough may lead to women in future being able to produce sperm.

 

Scientists in England have turned stem cells from am embryo into sperm which are capable of producing offspring.

 

The breakthrough is likely to lead to new advances in treating male infertility and even the possibility that women could manufacture sperm.

 

 

 

The researchers at Newcastle University say that the advance, when developed further, could help men with certain types of infertility to become fertile and even one day could enable a lesbian couple to have children that genetically would be their own.

 

The experiment used embryo cells to produce seven baby mice, six of whom lived into adulthood, although the survivors suffered adverse events of the kind seen in cloning experiments.

 

The researchers isolated embryonic stem cells from an embryo only a few days old consisting of a cluster of cells. The cells were grown in a laboratory and screened to isolate the spermatogonial stem calls which were grown and then injected into female mouse eggs and grown in early stage embryos.

 

The research team says its project will aid the understanding of the biological process through which sperm is produced, which should help in the future treatment of infertility.

 

It is hoped that this new knowledge could be translated into treatments for men whose sperm is dysfunctional, although could be some years into the future.

 

The research was published in the journal Developmental Cell.

[dubq 0]

Y: The Last Man, here we come.

[Black Lushus 0]

don't these scientists ever watch these movies that show us the negatives of clones, robots, time travel, etc.?

[Guest Vitamin X]

Man, it must suck to be a mouse.

[the max 0]

"I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other."

[Mik 0]

Man, it must suck to be a mouse.

 

Not the men. I run a mouse colony and each boy mouse gets 3 girls to himself to keep the colony going. Usually virgins. Some mice even get a constant supply of virgin females to impregnate at their leisure. Not a bad life... until I cut out all of their tissues anyway. But the males have it better.

[Slayer 0]

Some mice even get a constant supply of virgin females to impregnate at their leisure.

The Muslim mouse afterlife?

[WhenDanSaysJump 0]

Am I the only person who expected this thread to be about Chyna?

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Well, because if we can do something with science, than we should! That'll teach those Christians!

[Lil' Bitch 0]

so theoretically, that means women will be able to impregnate...themselves...

[Vampiro69 0]

Y: The Last Man, here we come.

 

Alright! A reference to Brian K. Vaughn!

[Guest Hotbutter Spoontoaster]

Well, because if we can do something with science, than we should! That'll teach those Christians!

Yes.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Well, because if we can do something with science, than we should! That'll teach those Christians!

 

But they still have bananas

[Brett Favre 0]

Science has never beaten God.